Reflector.com: First lady Michelle Obama electrified a crowd of 6,000 supporters on Wednesday with the message that every vote will count on Nov. 6.

Obama urged the audience in a 30-minute speech at Minges Coliseum to get family and friends to vote and to visit gottavote.com to register. Her visit was part of a campaign swing through Greenville and Durham.

“This election will be even closer than the last one. It could all come down to what happens in a few key battleground states like North Carolina,” Obama said.

First Lady Michelle Obama speaks to a crowd of over 6000 at Minges Coliseum on the East Carolina University campus, Sept 19

Tee hee hee. :grin: That’s actually what I was fffffearing….. d-d-d-oes this ‘working on it’ hold any similarities to your culinary working on it? No need for visuals. / spare us the mess, lord / If yes, as a good friend who recognizes how hard you work otherwise, I’ll just say ‘don’t worry about it, work noted.’ ;);)

Yes they loved FLOTUS. Chipsticks I watch her ECU speech live on local tv and the crowd was FIRED UP and READY TO GO!!! They talk to people as they left the event and they just loved being there to hear our FLOTUS. One lady were shouting “Fired Up” Ready to Go”. Fired Up Ready to Go”.

Don’t know if you saw my response on the last thread. Thanks for the help. Did not find the segment on the link you provided. On the MSNBC website it is entitled ” Can Team Romney recover before the debates?’ the guests are Mark McKinnon and Johnathan Capehart. Thank You.

99ts, remember what David Letterman said to POTUS about FLOTUS? He said he feel good when he is around FLOTUS. That she was smart, easy to talk too, down to earth. Imagine anyone saying that about that uppity snob Queen Ann

I think the O-team is trying to win by such a wide margin so that no shenanigans can be pulled from the other side (no demands for recount, etc). It will be a decisive, unambiguous win. And it will also send a clear message about whose vision the American people want to see implement.

Here is a short description of the reason behind this graphic from the New York Daily News:

The name Sarah Palin comes up a lot as we discuss the Romney campaign, because John McCain picking her as his running mate four years ago was one more reason why McCain had no chance against Obama in the end.

But the problem for Romney right now isn’t that he’s running with Sarah Palin. It’s that he’s BECOME Sarah Palin.

Once again the Republicans showed that they are not concern about the middle class or poor. They are not concern about the veterans. Sure they are eager to send them to war, but take care of them when they come home from war. Oh no, they can’t do that. It might help that Obama guy.

Since Mittens said in that video that The View would not be a could place for him to go because of the 4 “sharp tongued women,” The President and First Lady will be on The View on Tuesday. The show will be pre-taped on Monday. I love it! Mitt walked right into that. He is a coward and wimp, and we don’t need anybody like that as CIC.

One thing they didn’t say about what Mitt said, was that he singled out Whoopi by name, who in the past had told him his respected him for his healthcare plan in Mass. I don’t know why The View felt it necessary to omit that part of his quote. He purposely singled her out and they should have let everyone know that he did so. They also didn’t say anything about her response to what he said. I wish they would have rallied around Whoopi in her absence, instead of just letting it stand.

They did publicly ask Mitt and Ann to come on the show as well. I’m thinking they will almost have to go.

Yes cookemom well EH said she “spoke with the Romney campaign by phone” and they agreed to come on in October. I heard the quote about Whoopi on MSNBC, but as you say I don’t know why they omitted that yesterday. I was upset with how even Barbara Walters said that it was “true” that 47% of people do not pay taxes. I am glad PBO will be there to set the record straight. He puts EH in her place everytime but in a respectful manner.

The media has successfully spun Willard’s claim that the 47% who “don’t pay taxes” (including the military, who are legally exempted from paying taxes while earning combat pay putting their lives at risk on the battlefield) are comprised totally of those who support President Obama. Even if that entire statement were true (and it’s totally untrue) – would that mean that the 47% don’t deserve to be protected or have clean air or chances at education and jobs? Willard said that Obama supporters are those people who don’t pay taxes, and so he doesn’t care about them because they don’t care about themselves. Period.

Plus theo67, the part that hit my heart so deeply was thinking about the military when Mitt said that. Can you imagine how the military in the field felt if they heard that coming from the man who wants to be their CIC? Really sad and cruel person, Mr. Romney. “Out of the heart, the mouth speaketh.”HZ

That’s sad and sweet at the same time. I’m sure they never dreamed that in 20 years, they would be President and First Lady and engaged in a debate for the Presidency against a total loser – who is supported by 43% of the country!

i never understood all the respect he gets. he’s collecting data that others gather, puts it through some formulas he comes up with, and people act like he’s nostradamus. don’t his predictions change daily as different polls come in? he’s supposed success rates are based on his reports the night before elections, right? the real skill is taking poll data, knowledge of human behavior, and experience with politics to be able to make predictions months or years in advance. what good does it do for him to be saying 75% chance today, and then a totally different percent a month from now and so on because different poll numbers come in? he and his famous “model” seem like a computerized windsock to me.

LOL “computerized windsock” . Yes, I think you got his “model” all figured out. The only thing I like him for is that he weighs the polls based on their bias and reliablity history so consistently accurate polling companies are given most weight. And his focus is on the electoral math versus the national polls (or at least it used to be – it seems this year he gives a lot of commentary on the national polling).

Good morning all! Got a fundraiser email saying USA Today said PBO’s convention bounce was gone with Gallop only one point apart. Seems I am seeing different polls right now. Hmmmmm…..
I know we have to keep working regardless of what the polls say.

check the state polls, especially the swing states. PBO has never been behind in swing state polling. Mitt will have to get Rafalca to actually say he loves all that dancing and Seamus to show up and endorse him during the debates, in order to turn the tide.

GM all, hello Chips. Can you print in large election date: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6. I keep seeing Nov 7: in today AND past comments. We have to correct it because people read this blog and retain info from it. My kids tell me that a lot of teachers do not get it right. We must get D DAY right :)

Well, my profuse apology from one of the 47% which I posted on TPV has been one of my most popular posts. (In Blogger’s dashboard, you can see how many page views your post has received.) And my tweet about the two shades of Mitt filled up my TL with some rather hilarious responses.

I always had both an inkling and a hope that as the election season wore on, the GOP would become so assinine that eventually it would be subjected to the ridicule it deserves. This was before I was on Twitter. Now that I’m on social media, I’m seeing my hopes and suspicions come true. The MSM can be counted on to cover for Willard; we can be counted on to call out their bullshit and subject the GOP to the withering scorn it deserves.

Oh I see…so now Upchuck is clarifying it’s just one excerpt specifically about the Middle East part..he tweeted as though it was the entire tape. The 47% part is the part most folks are concerned about and that wasn’t missing any context. Upchuck, Stop trying to deliberately blur and obscure facts to confuse people.

He needs to give the pep talk to Mitt. Afterall, he had to defend his 47% remark as being inarticulate, then to save himself he had to say in effect Miff used the wrong words. Accepting the VP nod may have been Ryan’s worst political decision yet. That’s right up there with sitting in the front row at PBO’s invitation while getting himself reamed a new one.

This is how you do it. When you click on the blue box that says “Compose New Tweet” the tweet box pops up. There is a picture icon. You click on that icon and it opens up your Documents Folder or Picture Folder on your computer. If you have saved the picture, simply click on it then choose “Open” on your computer. The picture becomes embedded and then you can write your tweet. After you post your tweet, it can then appear like Amk’s tweet which shows the picture of Bo in the tweet.

Meta, you know what I have observed as well;Bo seem to realize that POB is the President. Bo also seems to recognize the honor that is due to the office of the president. I just feel that about Bo when I see him going up the stairs of AF1, walking with POB, and when he enteres the Oval Office.

Bo is my favorite First Dogs. There is something so beautiful about his temperament with POB. They also have trained Bo to be such a beautiful behaving First Dog. I love that. Thanks, Uncle Teddy and Vickie Kennedy. A beautiful gift that we all can enjoy always.HZ

Hey Chips you know that you can use the twitter picture icon and embed the picture in the tweet so that the full picture can be seen in the tweet and one doesn’t have to click on a link to see the picture.

Michelle Obama on President Obama’s bromance with President Bill Clinton

First Lady Michelle Obama recently sat down with “Access Hollywood” to talk about the upcoming presidential debates and her husband President Barack Obama’s bromance with President Bill Clinton.

“I know that Barack stays in close communication with all the former presidents and Bill Clinton has been an important advisor, friend and supporter for a very long time, so I guess it was the public display of the bromance,” says Michelle, in reference to the embrace the men shared at the Democratic National Convention.

Coming up for the Obamas during the 2012 presidential election are three televised debates between President Obama and Governor Mitt Romney.The first one, taking place Oct. 3 in Denver, Colo., happens to fall on the Obamas 20th anniversary.

“All I said was at least we’ll be together,” jokes Michelle, after she found out the date for the debate. “I’m going to make him write it on his hand — ‘Love you honey’ so that when he waves, it makes I love you honey.”

The First Lady also tells “Access” that one of the most important aspects of the election coming down the stretch is the youth vote.

“Young people are always the key to many elections and I try to tell them it’s not just about this election, but its making young people – putting them in the habit of engaging in the political process because this is really their future,” says Michelle. “So we’re always pushing, go to vote.com, making sure they go there, they’re registered and getting involved.”

Watch “Access Hollywood” Thursday, Sept. 20 and Friday, Sept. 21 for the full interview with the First Lady.

Let’s also remember the Earned Income Tax Credit is the ONLY way welfare-to-work actually succeeds.

It’s some high school graduate mom with a special needs kids working two jobs who is a ‘slacker’ because she gets an earned income tax credit and maybe some counseling and care for her kid? ALL of her meager salary goes right back into the economy.

What kind of monsters ARE these people? And what kind of country has almost half of its voters voting for these guys?

My gut feeling lately is that they have totally bailed on the U.S. They are using the Bain model: take what little is still viable and divvy up the spoils and go invest in the Chinese middle class, where there won’t be pesky environmental or labor laws. It’s despicable.

The pro-President Obama super PAC Priorities USA Action is out with a polling memo on data that was taken ahead of the release of Mitt Romney’s secretly-recorded comments from a fundraiser about 47 percent of American, which suggest he already had a baseline issue with middle class voters.

From the memo:

Even before the release this week of Mitt Romney’s comments dismissing 47% of Americans as dependent and lacking in personal responsibility, voters already understood that Romney is badly out of touch with the reality of average people’s lives and that he can’t be trusted to look out for the interests of middle class Americans who work hard and play by the rules. Recent polling conducted just this week by Global Strategy Group and Garin-Hart-Yang Research group on behalf of Priorities USA Action in the battleground states of Ohio and Iowa find that:

Voters believe that President Obama is – by far – the candidate who will protect the middle class. In both Ohio and Iowa, President Obama leads by significant double-digit margins as being the candidate who will do best “standing up for the interests of the middle class” and “holding down taxes on the middle class.” In addition, a recent CNN poll reinforced this finding – showing Obama with a 20-point lead nationally (57% to 37%) on being the candidate “in touch with the problems facing middle class Americans today.”

The full memo is available here. But the point the group is highlighting is that Romney’s challenge isn’t just convincing people he can relate to their problems, but selling them on the policies as well. That is in part the result of a full-on definitional assault from Democrats over the last several months as an out-of-touch businessman whose policies would be harmful.

“Gosh, I’d love to bring in more legal immigrants that have skill … I’d like to staple a green card to every Ph.D. in the world and say, ‘Come to America, we want you here,'” Romney said at the May event. “Instead, we make it hard for people who get educated here or elsewhere to make this their home.”

“Unless, of course, you have no skill or experience, in which case you’re welcome to cross the border and stay here for the rest of your life,” he said, to laughter from the audience. “It’s very strange.”